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.
ALAN BENNETTI bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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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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Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure.
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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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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 think perhaps that’s why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.
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Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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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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It’s like going to a place that you’ve never been to before – you’ve got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the reality.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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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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