I suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
ALAN BENNETTImagine 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.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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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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A composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth’s.
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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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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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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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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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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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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