So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
ALAN BENNETTThe thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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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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I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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I think perhaps that’s why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.
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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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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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I’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.
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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
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