Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.
ALAN BENNETTThere are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life.
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I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?
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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I’m conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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I think perhaps that’s why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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