Far 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.
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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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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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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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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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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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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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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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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You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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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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Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.
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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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I bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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