I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
ALAN BENNETTDeluded 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.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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I dont know whether you’ve ever looked into a miner’s eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you’ve ever seen.
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It’s subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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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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The 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.
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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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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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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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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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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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You always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
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