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.
ALAN BENNETTIf you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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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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No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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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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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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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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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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