Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, ‘I am Mrs de Winter now!
ALAN BENNETTGod doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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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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My films are about embarrassment.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury’s, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play.
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You must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom.
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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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His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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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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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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