Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
ALAN BENNETTYou always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure.
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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there’s no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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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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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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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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If, for instance, we’d made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it.
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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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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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I think the writer’s quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who, besides being the director, is also director of the National Theatre is, I’d have thought, slightly more risky.
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