However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
ALAN BENNETTNor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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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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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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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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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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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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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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