I bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
ALAN BENNETTI saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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[talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.
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My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn’t normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge.
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I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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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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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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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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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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