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.
ALAN BENNETTIf I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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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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I dont know whether you’ve ever looked into a miner’s eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you’ve ever seen.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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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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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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