Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
ALAN BENNETTYou have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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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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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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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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I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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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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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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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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