Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
ALAN BENNETTA photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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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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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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Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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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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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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So, half a dozen of us tried – not all of us in history – and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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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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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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