I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
ALAN BENNETTArt 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.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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A composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth’s.
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I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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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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Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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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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I suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
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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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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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