The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
ALAN BENNETTFar 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.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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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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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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We don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I’m conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
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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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I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
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