Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin
ALAN BENNETTWhy do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
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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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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.
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I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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We don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
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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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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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