Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
ALAN BENNETTIt’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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I think the writer’s quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who, besides being the director, is also director of the National Theatre is, I’d have thought, slightly more risky.
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What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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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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It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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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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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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