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’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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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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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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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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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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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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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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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’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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