Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
ALAN BENNETTA composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth’s.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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We don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
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A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
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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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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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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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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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I’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
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The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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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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