It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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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Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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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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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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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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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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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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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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