In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
ALAN BENNETTThe thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
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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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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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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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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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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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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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