The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
ALAN BENNETTThe nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
ALAN BENNETTWe 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 BENNETTThe longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
ALAN BENNETTOne of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
ALAN BENNETTMy experience came before most of you were born.
ALAN BENNETTBooks generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
ALAN BENNETTWere we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
ALAN BENNETTIf you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
ALAN BENNETTKnowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
ALAN BENNETTI lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
ALAN BENNETTPut him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
ALAN BENNETTOur perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
ALAN BENNETTI’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
ALAN BENNETTAt eighty things do not occur; they recur.
ALAN BENNETTMy films are about embarrassment.
ALAN BENNETTWhat I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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