[talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.
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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The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
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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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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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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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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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My films are about embarrassment.
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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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Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
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