A composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth’s.
ALAN BENNETTMark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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My experience came before most of you were born.
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
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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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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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If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
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I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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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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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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