And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
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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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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There’s very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made.
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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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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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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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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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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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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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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
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I 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.
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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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