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Alan Bennett : Keeping On, Keeping On
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I am halfway through this and am enjoying it immensely, just as I have enjoyed all his previous stuff. The Dairies this time are from 2005 to 2015, and are full of delicious quotes.
Recommended to all !
Recommended to all !
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I like his quote from Rupert.
Rupert is watching "Wuthering Heights" and turns to Bennett and says "you're rather like Heathcliff"
Bennett (gratified) "Really ?"
"Yeah. Difficult, Northern and a C"
Page 189.
Another one that comes to mind ::
A child in Settle is said to have asked what the Mafia was and his grandfather said " Its like the Settle Rotary Club, only with guns"
Page 217
There are so many others....its an absolute treasure !
Rupert is watching "Wuthering Heights" and turns to Bennett and says "you're rather like Heathcliff"
Bennett (gratified) "Really ?"
"Yeah. Difficult, Northern and a C"
Page 189.
Another one that comes to mind ::
A child in Settle is said to have asked what the Mafia was and his grandfather said " Its like the Settle Rotary Club, only with guns"
Page 217
There are so many others....its an absolute treasure !
I got this for last Christmas, mikey, and am just now leisurely wading though it. It is, as you say, a wonderful read.
Did you know that he used to just sit in Leeds art gallery and listen to people talking in order to write normal speech accurately. I wonder if I were one of the ones he heard as I used to go there quite a lot.
Did you know that he used to just sit in Leeds art gallery and listen to people talking in order to write normal speech accurately. I wonder if I were one of the ones he heard as I used to go there quite a lot.
J....Bennett is now a national treasure, although he probably won't thank me for saying so.
You remind me of a trick that Joe Orton used to play....
.he also valued real dialogue and he hid a tape recorder behind a loaf of bread in the kitchen, in order to be able to catch what his Mother used to say.
Another quote from Bennett's diaries I rather like.
His mother once remarked about seeing a bald man
" How would he know when he had finished washing his face ! "
You remind me of a trick that Joe Orton used to play....
.he also valued real dialogue and he hid a tape recorder behind a loaf of bread in the kitchen, in order to be able to catch what his Mother used to say.
Another quote from Bennett's diaries I rather like.
His mother once remarked about seeing a bald man
" How would he know when he had finished washing his face ! "
Tilly....even better !
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