Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
ALAN BENNETT
A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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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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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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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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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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