The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
ALAN BENNETTSo boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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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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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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I 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?
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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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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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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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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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