A book, as it were, closes the book.
ALAN BENNETTFar from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I’m conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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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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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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You must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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I’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
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