To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
ALAN BENNETTTo play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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…she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.
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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 suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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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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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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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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I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
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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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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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