Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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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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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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
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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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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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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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