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 BENNETTCloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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I bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
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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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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life.
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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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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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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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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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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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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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