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.
ALAN BENNETTThe longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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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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Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there’s no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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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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The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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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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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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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
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