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.
ALAN BENNETTA book is a device to ignite the imagination.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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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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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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There’s very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made.
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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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