Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
ALAN BENNETTI wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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My films are about embarrassment.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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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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Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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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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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less…selfish.
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I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
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The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.
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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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