I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
ALAN BENNETTThere are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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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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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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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.
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I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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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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A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
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But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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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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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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