Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
ALAN BENNETTThere are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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[talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.
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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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[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 are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it’s in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one’s own.
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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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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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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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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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