I don’t talk very well. With writing, you’ve time to get it right. Also I’ve found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn’t write no one would want me to talk anyway.
ALAN BENNETTThose who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
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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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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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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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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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