Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
ALAN BENNETTI tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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It’s subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
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I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
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I dont know whether you’ve ever looked into a miner’s eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you’ve ever seen.
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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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But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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