All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
ALAN BENNETTThe sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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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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[talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.
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One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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I’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
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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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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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