History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
ALAN BENNETTI 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.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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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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There’s very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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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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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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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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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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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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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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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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