Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
ALAN BENNETTIf I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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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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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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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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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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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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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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I bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
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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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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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f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
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