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.
ALAN BENNETTI’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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[talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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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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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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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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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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