Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
ALAN BENNETTSome local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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You always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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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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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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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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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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But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
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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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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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