Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
ALAN BENNETTNever read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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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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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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I dont know whether you’ve ever looked into a miner’s eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you’ve ever seen.
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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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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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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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Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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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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