Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
ALAN BENNETTChildren always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn’t normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge.
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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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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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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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There’s very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made.
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It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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I 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.
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You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
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