Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
ALAN BENNETTWe have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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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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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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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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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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My films are about embarrassment.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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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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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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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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They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury’s, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play.
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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