Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
ALAN BENNETTPut him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
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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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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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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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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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Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there’s no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it’s in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one’s own.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them 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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