Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
ALAN BENNETTWe don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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There’s very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made.
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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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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
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It’s subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
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Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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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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And one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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