A book, as it were, closes the book.
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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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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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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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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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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The Waste Land not figuring very largely in Mam’s scheme of things. “The thing is,” I said finally, “he won the Nobel Prize.” “Well,” she said, with that unerring grasp of inessentials which is the prerogative of mothers, “I’m not surprised. It was a beautiful overcoat.”
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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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It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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It’s subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
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Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life.
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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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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