And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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If, for instance, we’d made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life.
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Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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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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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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It’s like going to a place that you’ve never been to before – you’ve got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the reality.
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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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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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