I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
ALAN BENNETTThe liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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I’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
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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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God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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Imagine 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.
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The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
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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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The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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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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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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