I bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
ALAN BENNETTWhat I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
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You always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life.
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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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It’s subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
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My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn’t normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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