To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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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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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
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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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All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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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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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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