But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
ALAN BENNETTIf you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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A composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth’s.
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Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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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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I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?
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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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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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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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