Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
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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 reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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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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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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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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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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