Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
ALAN BENNETTThe days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn’t normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge.
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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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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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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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I’m conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
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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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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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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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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
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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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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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