What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
ALAN BENNETTPut him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin
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To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less…selfish.
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If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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I bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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