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.
ALAN BENNETTCancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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You must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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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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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.
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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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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin
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His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
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