However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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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…she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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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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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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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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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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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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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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