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.
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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The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
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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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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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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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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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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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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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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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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 don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
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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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My films are about embarrassment.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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