If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
ALAN BENNETTI dont know whether you’ve ever looked into a miner’s eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you’ve ever seen.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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You must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom.
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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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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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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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I think the writer’s quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who, besides being the director, is also director of the National Theatre is, I’d have thought, slightly more risky.
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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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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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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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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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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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