Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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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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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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date.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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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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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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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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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 suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
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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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To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less…selfish.
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Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
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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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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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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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