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.
ALAN BENNETTIf you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury’s, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play.
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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.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
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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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What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.
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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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