Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
ALAN BENNETTOur perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
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There’s very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made.
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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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A composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth’s.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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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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If, for instance, we’d made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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