Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
ALAN BENNETTMy experience came before most of you were born.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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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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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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Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin
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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.
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I suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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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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