Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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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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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it’s in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one’s own.
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Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
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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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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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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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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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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
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