Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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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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Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
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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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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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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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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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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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A composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth’s.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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