It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
ALAN BENNETTI turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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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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Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, ‘I am Mrs de Winter now!
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I’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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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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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
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