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
ALAN BENNETT- 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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You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
ALAN BENNETTClichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
ALAN BENNETTTo play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
ALAN BENNETTI’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
ALAN BENNETTI write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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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.
ALAN BENNETTThere’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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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
ALAN BENNETTOur perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
ALAN BENNETTBut most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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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.
ALAN BENNETTBut 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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The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
ALAN BENNETTThe thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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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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His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
ALAN BENNETTHis writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
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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.
ALAN BENNETTNor 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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