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
ALAN BENNETTCulminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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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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…she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.
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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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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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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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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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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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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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