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Life Quotes by Alan Bennett
- Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
- Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
- Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
- 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…
- I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
- But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten. They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want…
- What I'm above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality. If I had to sum up my work, I…
- 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)…
- Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key.
- You don't put your life into your books, you find it there.
- ...she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of…
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle