I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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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My experience came before most of you were born.
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I’m conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
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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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I’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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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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A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
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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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Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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[talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.
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I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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