Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
ALAN BENNETTYou don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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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.
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Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it’s in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one’s own.
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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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