To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
ALAN BENNETTIf, for instance, we’d made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
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Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it’s in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one’s own.
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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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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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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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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 generally something that happens elsewhere.
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it’s on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.
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Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life.
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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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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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