The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
ALAN BENNETTI think perhaps that’s why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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I suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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I bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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It’s subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
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