Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
ALAN BENNETTIf you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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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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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it’s in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one’s own.
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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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