They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury’s, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play.
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And one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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I think the writer’s quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who, besides being the director, is also director of the National Theatre is, I’d have thought, slightly more risky.
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All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it’s in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one’s own.
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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