Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
ALAN BENNETTI was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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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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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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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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The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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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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No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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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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Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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