Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
ALAN BENNETTThe trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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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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The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
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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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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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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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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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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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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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