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 BENNETTI 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.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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It’s subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
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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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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
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You always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
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