I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
ALAN BENNETTWe don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?
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I don’t talk very well. With writing, you’ve time to get it right. Also I’ve found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn’t write no one would want me to talk anyway.
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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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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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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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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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