I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
ALAN BENNETTSo boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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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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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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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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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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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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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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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
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It’s subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
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