I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
ALAN BENNETTBecause you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there’s no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.
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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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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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure.
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[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point.
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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I think perhaps that’s why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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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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