My experience came before most of you were born.
ALAN BENNETTIt’s like going to a place that you’ve never been to before – you’ve got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the reality.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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.
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Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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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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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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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn’t normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge.
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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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The Waste Land not figuring very largely in Mam’s scheme of things. “The thing is,” I said finally, “he won the Nobel Prize.” “Well,” she said, with that unerring grasp of inessentials which is the prerogative of mothers, “I’m not surprised. It was a beautiful overcoat.”
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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I’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
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God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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