We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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More Alan Bennett Quotes
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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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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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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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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The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
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Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life.
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It’s subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
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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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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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