And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
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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And one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.
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Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life.
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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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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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I suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure.
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Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it’s in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one’s own.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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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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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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