A book, as it were, closes the book.
ALAN BENNETTA book, as it were, closes the book.
ALAN BENNETTI’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
ALAN BENNETTBooks generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
ALAN BENNETTMy films are about embarrassment.
ALAN BENNETTI’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
ALAN BENNETTCancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
ALAN BENNETTI’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
ALAN BENNETTI’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
ALAN BENNETTI’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
ALAN BENNETTChildren always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
ALAN BENNETTBooks, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
ALAN BENNETTYour whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
ALAN BENNETTYou don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
ALAN BENNETTThe nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
ALAN BENNETTI can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
ALAN BENNETTOf course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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