A book, as it were, closes the book.
ALAN BENNETT[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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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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I don’t talk very well. With writing, you’ve time to get it right. Also I’ve found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn’t write no one would want me to talk anyway.
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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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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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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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The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it’s on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.
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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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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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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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