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.
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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A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
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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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Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.
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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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So, half a dozen of us tried – not all of us in history – and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.
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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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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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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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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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