If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
ALAN BENNETTThe days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
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[talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury’s, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play.
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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
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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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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
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His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
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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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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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