We don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
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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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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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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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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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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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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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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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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You must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom.
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