In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
ALAN BENNETTAnd if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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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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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I’m conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
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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 best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
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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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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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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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