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.
ALAN BENNETTOne reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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If, 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.
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The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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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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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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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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Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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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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I bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
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