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.
ALAN BENNETTNo mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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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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A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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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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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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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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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury’s, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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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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My experience came before most of you were born.
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