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.
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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My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn’t normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge.
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The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.
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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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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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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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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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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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The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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It’s like going to a place that you’ve never been to before – you’ve got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the reality.
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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If, for instance, we’d made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it.
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