I bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
ALAN BENNETTA photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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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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Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
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One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.
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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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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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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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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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