Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
ALAN BENNETTLife is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
ALAN BENNETTI write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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!
ALAN BENNETTIn the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
ALAN BENNETTI’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
ALAN BENNETTSometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
ALAN BENNETTWhat I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
ALAN BENNETTTo begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
ALAN BENNETTSchweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
ALAN BENNETTIt was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
ALAN BENNETTHad your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
ALAN BENNETTWe were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
ALAN BENNETTFar 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.
ALAN BENNETTClichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
ALAN BENNETTAnd one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.
ALAN BENNETTWe have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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