Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
ALAN BENNETTI don’t talk very well. With writing, you’ve time to get it right. Also I’ve found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn’t write no one would want me to talk anyway.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there’s no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.
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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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My films are about embarrassment.
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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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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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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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
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I don’t talk very well. With writing, you’ve time to get it right. Also I’ve found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn’t write no one would want me to talk anyway.
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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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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
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