We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
ALAN BENNETTA book is a device to ignite the imagination.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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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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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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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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I think the writer’s quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who, besides being the director, is also director of the National Theatre is, I’d have thought, slightly more risky.
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[talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.
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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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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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