But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
ALAN BENNETTIf, 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.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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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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The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
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If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
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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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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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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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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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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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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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