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 BENNETTI had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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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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A composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth’s.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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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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What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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I’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
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We don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
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His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
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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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