If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
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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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.
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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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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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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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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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