Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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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 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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No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.
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[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point.
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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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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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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.
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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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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
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It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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