To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
ALAN BENNETTBooks, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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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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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
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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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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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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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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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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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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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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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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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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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