Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
ALAN BENNETTMy films are about embarrassment.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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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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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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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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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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So, half a dozen of us tried – not all of us in history – and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.
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And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life.
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Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
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