Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
ALAN BENNETTAt eighty things do not occur; they recur.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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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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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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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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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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Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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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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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.
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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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I’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
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Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure.
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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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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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