It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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.
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The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
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God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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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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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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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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It’s like going to a place that you’ve never been to before – you’ve got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the reality.
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All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
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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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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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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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