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.
ALAN BENNETTNever read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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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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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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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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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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So, half a dozen of us tried – not all of us in history – and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.
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But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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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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