Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, ‘I am Mrs de Winter now!
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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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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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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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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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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A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
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I think the writer’s quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who, besides being the director, is also director of the National Theatre is, I’d have thought, slightly more risky.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there’s no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.
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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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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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