There’s very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made.
ALAN BENNETTI saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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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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There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I’m conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
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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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What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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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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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin
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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it’s on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.
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His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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