My films are about embarrassment.
ALAN BENNETTAnd if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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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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All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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You always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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