Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
ALAN BENNETTI 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.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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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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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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To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less…selfish.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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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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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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