…she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.
ALAN BENNETTI’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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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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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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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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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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