His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
ALAN BENNETTMark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
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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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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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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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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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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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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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