Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
ALAN BENNETTThere are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it’s in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one’s own.
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Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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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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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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