I suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
ALAN BENNETTSome 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.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
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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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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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I bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
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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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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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