Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
ALAN BENNETTYou always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
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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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But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
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I think the writer’s quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who, besides being the director, is also director of the National Theatre is, I’d have thought, slightly more risky.
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The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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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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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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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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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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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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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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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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I suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
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