[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point.
ALAN BENNETTIt’s like going to a place that you’ve never been to before – you’ve got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the reality.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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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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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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It’s like going to a place that you’ve never been to before – you’ve got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the reality.
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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.
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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
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It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
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The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
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