To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less…selfish.
ALAN BENNETTWe started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
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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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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.
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The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.
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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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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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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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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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