I bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
ALAN BENNETTI’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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 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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Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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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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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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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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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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And one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
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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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