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Alan Bennett Quotes
![[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/756/755433/755433.webp "[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up Picture Quote #1")
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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 Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/820/819880/819880.webp "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 Picture Quote #1")
![It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge. But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/820/819881/819881.webp "It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge. But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful Picture Quote #1")
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I’m not happy but I’m not unhappy about it (Alan Bennett Quotes)
Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand (Alan Bennett Quotes)
[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up (Alan Bennett Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects. However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey (Alan Bennett Quotes)
Headmaster: I have never understood this liking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment (Alan Bennett Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 (Alan Bennett Quotes)
I have no doubt that in heaven the angels will regard the blessed as a necessary evil (Alan Bennett Quotes)
It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge. But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful (Alan Bennett Quotes)
I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin. The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really (Alan Bennett Quotes)
I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual. In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint. (Alan Bennett Quotes)
Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, ‘I am Mrs de Winter now! (Alan Bennett Quotes)
No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off (Alan Bennett Quotes)
Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development (Alan Bennett Quotes)
I do not long for the world as it was when I was a child. I do not long for the person I was in that world. I do not want to be the person I am now in that world then. None of the forms nostalgia can take fits. I found childhood boring. I was glad it was over. (Alan Bennett Quotes)
God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, Can I be excused the Crucifixion? No! (Alan Bennett Quotes)
The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next. It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this (Alan Bennett Quotes)
I’d somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not something you enjoyed. (Alan Bennett Quotes)
I didn’t even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had fallen in love with the architecture. It certainly wasn’t out of some great sense of academic or intellectual achievement. In many ways, my education only began after I’d left university. (Alan Bennett Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
I’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people. (Alan Bennett Quotes)
I’ve been very lucky in everything, really - in my career and in finding someone to share my life with, and in not dying. (Alan Bennett Quotes)
... Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up. Books, bread and butter, mashed potato - one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy. (Alan Bennett Quotes)
I'm not "happy" but I'm not unhappy about it (Alan Bennett Quotes)
Why is it always the "intelligent" people who are socialists? (Alan Bennett Quotes)
I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to (Alan Bennett Quotes)
One reads for pleasure... it is not a public duty (Alan Bennett Quotes)
Headmaster: They were all socialists. Why is it always the intelligent people who are socialists? (Alan Bennett Quotes)