Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
ALAN BENNETTNor 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.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I’m conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
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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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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point.
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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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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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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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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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Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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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.
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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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