I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
ALAN BENNETTThere is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I’m conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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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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And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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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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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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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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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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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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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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