Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
ALAN BENNETTI’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
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I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
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I bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
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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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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.
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