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.
ALAN BENNETTBut 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.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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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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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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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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We don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
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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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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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