I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
ALAN BENNETTThe liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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There’s very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made.
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The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.
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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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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
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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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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point.
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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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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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