My films are about embarrassment.
ALAN BENNETTI can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, ‘I am Mrs de Winter now!
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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
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And one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.
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I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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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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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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