No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.
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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The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it’s on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.
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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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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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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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I dont know whether you’ve ever looked into a miner’s eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you’ve ever seen.
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there’s no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.
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And one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.
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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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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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