I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
ALAN BENNETTf they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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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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Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
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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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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
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We don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
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I bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
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