It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
ALAN BENNETTI’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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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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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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Because 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.
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I don’t talk very well. With writing, you’ve time to get it right. Also I’ve found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn’t write no one would want me to talk anyway.
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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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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Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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It’s like going to a place that you’ve never been to before – you’ve got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the 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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