At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
ALAN BENNETTOur father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
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There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I’m conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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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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And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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