Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
ALAN BENNETTWhy do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it’s on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.
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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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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
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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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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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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[talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.
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A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
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