I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
ALAN BENNETTClichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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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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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, ‘I am Mrs de Winter now!
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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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It’s subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
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The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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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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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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