Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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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Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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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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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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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
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I 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.
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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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A composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth’s.
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At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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