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
ALAN BENNETTSchweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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It’s like going to a place that you’ve never been to before – you’ve got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the reality.
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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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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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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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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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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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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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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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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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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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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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My films are about embarrassment.
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If, for instance, we’d made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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