Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin
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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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
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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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The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
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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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If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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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.
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The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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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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And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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