We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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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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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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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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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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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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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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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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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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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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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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