Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.
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There’s very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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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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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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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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But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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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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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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The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
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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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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 write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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