Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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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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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Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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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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My films are about embarrassment.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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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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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it’s on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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…she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.
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Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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