We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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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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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date.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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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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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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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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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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