History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
ALAN BENNETTArtists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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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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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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The Waste Land not figuring very largely in Mam’s scheme of things. “The thing is,” I said finally, “he won the Nobel Prize.” “Well,” she said, with that unerring grasp of inessentials which is the prerogative of mothers, “I’m not surprised. It was a beautiful overcoat.”
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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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Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
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It’s like going to a place that you’ve never been to before – you’ve got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the reality.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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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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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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