You always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
ALAN BENNETTMy films are about embarrassment.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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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 turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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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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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less…selfish.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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You must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
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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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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
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