It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
ALAN BENNETTIf I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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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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The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
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But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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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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A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
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Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I’m conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
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