A book, as it were, closes the book.
ALAN BENNETTI’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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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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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
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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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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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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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I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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