Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
ALAN BENNETTIt’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there’s no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.
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I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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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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The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
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The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
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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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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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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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