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.
ALAN BENNETTIf you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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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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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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A composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth’s.
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[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point.
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There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I’m conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
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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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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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The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
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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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