To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
ALAN BENNETTI can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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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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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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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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God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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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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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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