I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
ALAN BENNETTI’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
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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 experience came before most of you were born.
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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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 write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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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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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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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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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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