Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
ALAN BENNETTAll the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I’m conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
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[talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.
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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
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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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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, ‘I am Mrs de Winter now!
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I don’t talk very well. With writing, you’ve time to get it right. Also I’ve found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn’t write no one would want me to talk anyway.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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