Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
ALAN BENNETTOnly 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.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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A composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth’s.
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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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There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I’m conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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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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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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You always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
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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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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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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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The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
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