To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
ALAN BENNETTIt seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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My experience came before most of you were born.
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[talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.
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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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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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There’s very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
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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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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
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[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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