A book, as it were, closes the book.
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.
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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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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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Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.
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Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there’s no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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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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I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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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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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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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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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
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