Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
ALAN BENNETTTo play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there’s no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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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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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’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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If, for instance, we’d made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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You always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
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