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.
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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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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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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Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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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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Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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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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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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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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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
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