Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
ALAN BENNETTYou go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
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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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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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It’s subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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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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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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