History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
ALAN BENNETTNo mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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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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A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
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Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin
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A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
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If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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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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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury’s, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play.
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The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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I bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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