I 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.
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 majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it’s on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.
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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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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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The Waste Land not figuring very largely in Mam’s scheme of things. “The thing is,” I said finally, “he won the Nobel Prize.” “Well,” she said, with that unerring grasp of inessentials which is the prerogative of mothers, “I’m not surprised. It was a beautiful overcoat.”
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Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
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A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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