I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
ALAN BENNETTOur father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn’t normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge.
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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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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It’s like going to a place that you’ve never been to before – you’ve got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the reality.
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The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
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Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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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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