I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
ALAN BENNETTTo begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.
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I dont know whether you’ve ever looked into a miner’s eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you’ve ever seen.
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
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All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
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And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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I suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
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