Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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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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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.
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And one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.
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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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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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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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Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
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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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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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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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I suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
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