Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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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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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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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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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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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
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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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The Waste Land not figuring very largely in Mam’s scheme of things. “The thing is,” I said finally, “he won the Nobel Prize.” “Well,” she said, with that unerring grasp of inessentials which is the prerogative of mothers, “I’m not surprised. It was a beautiful overcoat.”
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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