If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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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 [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there’s no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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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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You always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
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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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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
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Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, ‘I am Mrs de Winter now!
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Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.
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I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
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