Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
ALAN BENNETTAt eighty things do not occur; they recur.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
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Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure.
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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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So, half a dozen of us tried – not all of us in history – and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.
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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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Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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