Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
ALAN BENNETTOnly when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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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.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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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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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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