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.
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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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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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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Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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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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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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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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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, ‘I am Mrs de Winter now!
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