Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
ALAN BENNETTBut then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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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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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there’s no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.
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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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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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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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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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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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Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.
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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
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