I don’t talk very well. With writing, you’ve time to get it right. Also I’ve found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn’t write no one would want me to talk anyway.
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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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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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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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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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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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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I think the writer’s quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who, besides being the director, is also director of the National Theatre is, I’d have thought, slightly more risky.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, ‘I am Mrs de Winter now!
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We don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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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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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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