Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
ALAN BENNETTI suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
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The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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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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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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I suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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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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Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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