It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
ALAN BENNETTHad your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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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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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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And one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.
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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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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life.
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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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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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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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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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