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.
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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And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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You must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom.
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And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less…selfish.
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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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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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You 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.
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
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