Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
ALAN BENNETTYour whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin
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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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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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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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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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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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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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Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there’s no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.
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God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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