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From Quotes by Alan Bennett
- You always know when you're going to arrive. If you go by car, you don't. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you…
- Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows…
- Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, 'I am Mrs de Winter now!
- At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink)…
- Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of…
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