I dont know whether you’ve ever looked into a miner’s eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you’ve ever seen.
ALAN BENNETTHistory is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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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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The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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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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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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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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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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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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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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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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