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.
ALAN BENNETTI suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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I suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life.
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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If, for instance, we’d made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it.
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A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
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And one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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