However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
ALAN BENNETTLife is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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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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The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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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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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I’m conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
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Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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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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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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