Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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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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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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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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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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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The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
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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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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury’s, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play.
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To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less…selfish.
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I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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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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