You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
ALAN BENNETTIn the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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So, half a dozen of us tried – not all of us in history – and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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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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I’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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The 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.
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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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The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
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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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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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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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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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