Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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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Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin
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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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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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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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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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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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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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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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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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