My experience came before most of you were born.
ALAN BENNETTI write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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[talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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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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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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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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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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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin
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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.
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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