There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
ALAN BENNETTCancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
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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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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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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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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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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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