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.
ALAN BENNETTI think the writer’s quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who, besides being the director, is also director of the National Theatre is, I’d have thought, slightly more risky.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point.
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To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less…selfish.
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The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.
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No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people 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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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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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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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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