They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury’s, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play.
ALAN BENNETTReading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
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Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
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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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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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Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.
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I’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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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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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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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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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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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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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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