I dont know whether you’ve ever looked into a miner’s eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you’ve ever seen.
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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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.
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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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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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There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I’m conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
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And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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You always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
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[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.
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