I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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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Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it’s in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one’s own.
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A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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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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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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Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, ‘I am Mrs de Winter now!
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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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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