That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
ALAN BENNETTI write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure.
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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.
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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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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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Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.
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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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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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I think perhaps that’s why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.
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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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The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
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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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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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