But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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You always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
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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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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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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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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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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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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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