I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
ALAN BENNETTThere is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I’m conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
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I don’t talk very well. With writing, you’ve time to get it right. Also I’ve found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn’t write no one would want me to talk anyway.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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[talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.
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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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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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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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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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