The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it’s on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.
ALAN BENNETTI bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
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Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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The Waste Land not figuring very largely in Mam’s scheme of things. “The thing is,” I said finally, “he won the Nobel Prize.” “Well,” she said, with that unerring grasp of inessentials which is the prerogative of mothers, “I’m not surprised. It was a beautiful overcoat.”
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
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Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
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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 dont know whether you’ve ever looked into a miner’s eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you’ve ever seen.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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