Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
ALAN BENNETTAt eighty things do not occur; they recur.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
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Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
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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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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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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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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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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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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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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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