Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
ALAN BENNETTI lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
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I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it’s in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one’s own.
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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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My experience came before most of you were born.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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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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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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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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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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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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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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