One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
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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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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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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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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My films are about embarrassment.
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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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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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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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