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Zitat des Tages von Alan Bennett:

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

I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.

Alan Bennett

Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?

Alan Bennett

Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.

Alan Bennett

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.

Alan Bennett

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

Alan Bennett

Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.

Alan Bennett

We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.

Alan Bennett

If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.

Alan Bennett

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

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

Alan Bennett

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

Alan Bennett

I always like to break out and address the audience. In 'The History Boys', for instance, without any ado, the boys will suddenly turn and talk to the audience and then go back into the action. I find it more adventurous doing it in prose than on the stage, but I like being able to make the reader suddenly sit up.

Alan Bennett

I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.

Alan Bennett

I don't believe in private education.

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.

Alan Bennett

I'm more socialist certainly than New Labour - I'm very old Labour, really.

Alan Bennett

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

Alan Bennett

I'm less genial than people think, but I'm too timid to seem nasty.

Alan Bennett

We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.

Alan Bennett

All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.

Alan Bennett

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

Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development.

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.

Alan Bennett

The bits I most remember about my school days are those that took place outside the classroom, as we were taken on countless theatre visits and trips to places of interest.

Alan Bennett

I don't want to see libraries close; I want to find local solutions that will make them sustainable.

Alan Bennett