If, for instance, we’d made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it.
ALAN BENNETTI tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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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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[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?
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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.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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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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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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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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The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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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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The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
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No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.
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