We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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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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Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
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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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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?
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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.
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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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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I’m conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
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I dont know whether you’ve ever looked into a miner’s eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you’ve ever seen.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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