Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there’s no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.
ALAN BENNETTMark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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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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My films are about embarrassment.
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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
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The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it’s on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.
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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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His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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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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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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There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I’m conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
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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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Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
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