Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.
ALAN BENNETTThose who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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I think the writer’s quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who, besides being the director, is also director of the National Theatre is, I’d have thought, slightly more risky.
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Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, ‘I am Mrs de Winter now!
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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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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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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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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
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I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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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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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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