Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
ALAN BENNETTBecause you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there’s no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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A composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth’s.
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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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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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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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Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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