But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
ALAN BENNETTYou go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, ‘I am Mrs de Winter now!
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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I bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
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Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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I think the writer’s quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who, besides being the director, is also director of the National Theatre is, I’d have thought, slightly more risky.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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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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The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.
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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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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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