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 BENNETTAt eighty things do not occur; they recur.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
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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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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I’m conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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A composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth’s.
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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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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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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