Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
ALAN BENNETTWe started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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I don’t talk very well. With writing, you’ve time to get it right. Also I’ve found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn’t write no one would want me to talk anyway.
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His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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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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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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There’s very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made.
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But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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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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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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