If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
ALAN BENNETTYou don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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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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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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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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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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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it’s on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.
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