The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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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I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?
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Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
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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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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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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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And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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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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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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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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