However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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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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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it’s on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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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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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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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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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin
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I don’t talk very well. With writing, you’ve time to get it right. Also I’ve found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn’t write no one would want me to talk anyway.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
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