Author: Alan Bennett

Quotes

Full-blooded romantic love I wouldn't be able to write about.

Full-blooded romantic love I wouldn't be able to write about.

- Alan Bennett

Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.

Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.

- Alan Bennett

Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.

Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.

- Alan Bennett

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.

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

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.

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

Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.

Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.

- Alan Bennett

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