His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
ALAN BENNETTThere are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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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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[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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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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