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.
ALAN BENNETTLife is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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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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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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And one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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I’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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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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[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point.
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I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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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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