Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never. — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“I have to seem like a human being all the time, but I seldom have to be one. I have people to… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Books are not about passing the time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I'm homosexual. In… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“30 November. My dustbin has been on its last legs for some time, and after the binmen have called this morning I… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I'm homosexual. In… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, Sir Kevin, one… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
I don't talk very well. With writing, you've time to get it right. Also I've found the more I talk the less… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
I dont know whether you've ever looked into a miner's eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“IRWIN: At the time of the Reformation there were fourteen foreskins of Christ preserved, but it was thought that the church of… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
[talking about the Holocaust] 'But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“Arriving at the hotel, like leaving it, was fraught with anxiety: there was always the question of ‘the tip’. Dad would probably… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left, Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am… — Alan Bennett Copy Share
I'm not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people. — Alan Bennett Copy Share
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… — Alan Bennett Copy Share
At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked… — Alan Bennett Copy Share
There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world. Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale… — Alan Bennett Copy Share
I'm more socialist certainly than New Labour - I'm very old Labour, really. — Alan Bennett Copy Share
Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count. We still don't like to admit the war was even partly… — Alan Bennett Copy Share
But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten. They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still… — Alan Bennett Copy Share
“BURGESS How do you like Moscow? CORAL Loathe it, darling. I cannot understand what those Three Sisters were on about. It gives the play… — Alan Bennett Copy Share
The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which… — Alan Bennett Copy Share
Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching. — Alan Bennett Copy Share
The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was reading them… — Alan Bennett Copy Share
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