To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
ALAN BENNETTYour whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I’m conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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And one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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The Waste Land not figuring very largely in Mam’s scheme of things. “The thing is,” I said finally, “he won the Nobel Prize.” “Well,” she said, with that unerring grasp of inessentials which is the prerogative of mothers, “I’m not surprised. It was a beautiful overcoat.”
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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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[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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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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