Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
ALAN BENNETTI lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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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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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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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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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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It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
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There’s very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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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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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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