One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
ALAN BENNETTCancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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I think perhaps that’s why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.
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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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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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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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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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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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So, half a dozen of us tried – not all of us in history – and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.
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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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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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