We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
ALAN BENNETTI’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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It’s like going to a place that you’ve never been to before – you’ve got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the reality.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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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.
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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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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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If, for instance, we’d made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it.
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Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.
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