Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
ALAN BENNETTBooks generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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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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Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
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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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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
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A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
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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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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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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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I bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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