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?
ALAN BENNETTOnly 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.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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I’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
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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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Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I’m conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
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The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it’s in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one’s own.
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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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