It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
ALAN BENNETTHis writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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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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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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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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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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I don’t talk very well. With writing, you’ve time to get it right. Also I’ve found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn’t write no one would want me to talk anyway.
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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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I dont know whether you’ve ever looked into a miner’s eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you’ve ever seen.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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