A composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth’s.
ALAN BENNETTMy films are about embarrassment.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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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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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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There’s very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made.
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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We don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
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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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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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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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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin
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