Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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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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.
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If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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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.
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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less…selfish.
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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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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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