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 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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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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We don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure.
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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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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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You must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom.
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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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