I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
ALAN BENNETTAt the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less…selfish.
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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it’s in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one’s own.
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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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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it’s on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.
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I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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