Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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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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And one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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I think perhaps that’s why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.
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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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