Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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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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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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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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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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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If, for instance, we’d made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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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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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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We don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
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Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
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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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