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 BENNETTThe Waste Land not figuring very largely in Mam’s scheme of things. “The thing is,” I said finally, “he won the Nobel Prize.” “Well,” she said, with that unerring grasp of inessentials which is the prerogative of mothers, “I’m not surprised. It was a beautiful overcoat.”
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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It’s like going to a place that you’ve never been to before – you’ve got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the reality.
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
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The Waste Land not figuring very largely in Mam’s scheme of things. “The thing is,” I said finally, “he won the Nobel Prize.” “Well,” she said, with that unerring grasp of inessentials which is the prerogative of mothers, “I’m not surprised. It was a beautiful overcoat.”
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
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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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