If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
—Alan Bennett
Topics: Leisure
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
Topics: Fame
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. I was programmed to be a novelist or a playwright. But I’m not.
—Alan Bennett
Topics: Writing, Authors & Writing, Writers
Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
—Alan Bennett
Topics: Parents
Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
—Alan Bennett
Topics: Books
I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
—Alan Bennett
Topics: Wealth
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