It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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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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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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If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
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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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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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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 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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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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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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