Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
ALAN BENNETTIn the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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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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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
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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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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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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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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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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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Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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