Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
ALAN BENNETTThere’s very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
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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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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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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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There’s very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made.
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I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?
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