I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
ALAN BENNETTBooks 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.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
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And one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.
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If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
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All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
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