It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
ALAN BENNETTLife is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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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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f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
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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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And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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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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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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I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.
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If, for instance, we’d made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it.
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