Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
ALAN BENNETTIt was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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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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But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
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I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?
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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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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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Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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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 always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
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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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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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I’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
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