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.
ALAN BENNETTI was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, ‘I am Mrs de Winter now!
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You must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom.
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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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…she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.
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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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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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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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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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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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