But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
ALAN BENNETTWhy do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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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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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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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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The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
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The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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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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