Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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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But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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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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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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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
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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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