You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
ALAN BENNETTMy experience came before most of you were born.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, ‘I am Mrs de Winter now!
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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less…selfish.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
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So, half a dozen of us tried – not all of us in history – and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
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