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.
ALAN BENNETTHad your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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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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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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[talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point.
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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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Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.
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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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The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
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