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.
ALAN BENNETTI 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.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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You always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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So, half a dozen of us tried – not all of us in history – and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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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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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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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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It’s subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
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