I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
ALAN BENNETTA book is a device to ignite the imagination.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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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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You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
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My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn’t normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge.
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Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there’s no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.
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A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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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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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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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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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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