I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
ALAN BENNETTI tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
ALAN BENNETTI turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
ALAN BENNETTI was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
ALAN BENNETTBooks are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
ALAN BENNETTI don’t talk very well. With writing, you’ve time to get it right. Also I’ve found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn’t write no one would want me to talk anyway.
ALAN BENNETTAn article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
ALAN BENNETTWere we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
ALAN BENNETTA photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
ALAN BENNETTArtists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
ALAN BENNETTOnce I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
ALAN BENNETTTo play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
ALAN BENNETTOne recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
ALAN BENNETTThe best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
ALAN BENNETTOf course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
ALAN BENNETTIt’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
ALAN BENNETTHere 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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