A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
ALAN BENNETT
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.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
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We don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
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I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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I think perhaps that’s why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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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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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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Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
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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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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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