Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
ALAN BENNETTKafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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I 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.
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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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Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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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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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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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
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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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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Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, ‘I am Mrs de Winter now!
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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One 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.
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