Alan Bennett Quotes - Page 4

• To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.

  Alan Bennett

  Play, Form, Pursuit

  Alan Bennett (2008). “Writing Home”, p.157, Faber & Faber

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• I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.

  Alan Bennett

  War, Instinct, Scope

  'Forty Years On' (1969) act 1

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• God doesn't do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, "Can I be excused the Crucifixion?" No!

  Alan Bennett

  Jesus, Christ, Notes

  The History Boys, www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.

  Alan Bennett

  Book, Library, Kind

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• One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.' To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: 'This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.

  Alan Bennett

  Stars, Lessons, Recipes

  Alan Bennett (2008). “The Uncommon Reader”, p.29, Faber & Faber

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• Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.

  Alan Bennett

  Smell, Confusing, Library

  Alan Bennett (2017). “The History Boys: With GCSE and A Level study guide”, p.30, Faber & Faber

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• ...she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.

  Alan Bennett

  Reading, Writing, Impossible

  Alan Bennett (2008). “The Uncommon Reader”, p.20, Faber & Faber

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• ¡i hubieran estado trabajando con Alec Guinness, por ejemplo, no se habrían enterado de que habían nacido si no hubieran seguido la línea!

  Alan Bennett

  Lines, Born, Guinness

  Fuente: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I think the writer's quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who, besides being the director, is also director of the National Theatre is, I'd have thought, slightly more risky.

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  Pensamiento, Teatro, Directores

  Fuente: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• It's the one species I wouldn't mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth. I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.

  Alan Bennett

  White, Mind, Wish

  1971 Of dogs. Getting On (published 1972), act1.

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• Al principio, es cierto, leía con inquietud y cierto desasosiego. La infinidad de libros la superaba y no sabía cómo seguir; no había un sistema de lectura, un libro llevaba a otro, y a menudo tenía dos o tres al mismo tiempo.

  Alan Bennett

  Libro, Lectura, Ideas

  Alan Bennett (2008). “The Uncommon Reader”, p.20, Faber & Faber

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• Standards are always out of date. That's what makes them standards.

  Alan Bennett

  Computer, Standards

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• El cáncer, como cualquier otra enfermedad, es un aburrimiento.

  Alan Bennett

  Cancer, Cancer Survivor, Illness

  Alan Bennett (2008). “Untold Stories”, p.473, Faber & Faber

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• Pero la mayoría de los hombres consideran su vida como un poema amenazado por las mujeres. Puede que no tengan dos dedos de frente, pero aún así quieren escribir su saga sin que se lo impidan actividades que ponen en peligro su vida, como dar vueltas por Sainsbury's, vaciar el lavavajillas o ir al belén.

  Alan Bennett

  Men, Play, Two

  Alan Bennett (2007). “Writing Home”, p.570, Picador

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• Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.

  Alan Bennett

  Memories, Fall, Knowing

  Alan Bennett (2009). “Alan Bennett Plays 2: Kafka's Dick; Insurance Man; Old Country; Englishman Abroad; Question of Attribution”, p.18, Faber & Faber

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• La naturaleza le jugó una mala pasada al darle un bigote depilado.

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  Sarcastic, Giving, Mustache

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• There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world. Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.

  Alan Bennett

  Mean, Science, Space

  Alan Bennett (2009). “Alan Bennett Plays 2: Kafka's Dick; Insurance Man; Old Country; Englishman Abroad; Question of Attribution”, p.212, Faber & Faber

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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.

  Alan Bennett

  Play, Scripts, Film

  1984 A Private Function, introduction to published screen play.

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• I dont know whether you've ever looked into a miner's eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you've ever seen. 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.

  Alan Bennett

  Time, Eye, Thinking

  Alan Bennett (2007). “Writing Home”, p.590, Macmillan

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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. And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.' 'But this is History. Distance yourselves. Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground. We don't see it, and because we don't see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past. And one of the historian's jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be... even on the Holocaust.

  Alan Bennett

  Jobs, Distance, Mean

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• To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less...selfish.

  Alan Bennett

  Selfish, Easier, Pursuit

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• I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don't think it was decided at that meeting. The trouble is, as soon as you've chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of. 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.

  Alan Bennett

  Reality, Thinking, Play

  Fuente: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.

  Alan Bennett

  Writing, Play, Roots

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• But then books, as I'm sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action. Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already. You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated. A book, as it were, closes the book.

  Alan Bennett

  Book, Action, Conviction

  Alan Bennett (2008). "The Uncommon Reader", p.46, Faber & Faber

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• Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages - just don't catch him at breakfast. Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.

  Alan Bennett

  Husband, Father, Artist

  Alan Bennett (2009). “Alan Bennett Plays 2: Kafka's Dick; Insurance Man; Old Country; Englishman Abroad; Question of Attribution”, p.18, Faber & Faber

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