Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key. ALAN BENNETT RatherSardineTin
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! ALAN BENNETT AlecBeenInstance
I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none. ALAN BENNETT neverPointSeenShore
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. ALAN BENNETT AdjustmentMadeSomeSubstanceThroughVan
And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours ALAN BENNETT DownHandLongSetSomeoneYour
If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging. ALAN BENNETT ArrangeCompetitiveSquashThink
I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out. ALAN BENNETT OutResolveRootThingWrite
But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge. ALAN BENNETT CambridgeHeadmasterOxfordPushSome
