Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
ALAN BENNETTBooks are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
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His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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I suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
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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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A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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…she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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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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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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