Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
ALAN BENNETTf they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
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I don’t talk very well. With writing, you’ve time to get it right. Also I’ve found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn’t write no one would want me to talk anyway.
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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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If, for instance, we’d made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
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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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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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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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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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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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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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