Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
ALAN BENNETTA bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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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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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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You always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
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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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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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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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God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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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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All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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