Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
ALAN BENNETTLife is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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I think the writer’s quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who, besides being the director, is also director of the National Theatre is, I’d have thought, slightly more risky.
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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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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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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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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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