Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
ALAN BENNETTKnowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it’s in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one’s own.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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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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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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So, half a dozen of us tried – not all of us in history – and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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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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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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