To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
ALAN BENNETTA book, as it were, closes the book.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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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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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury’s, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
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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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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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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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My experience came before most of you were born.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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