I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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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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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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I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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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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Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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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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Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
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Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.
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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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