I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
ALAN BENNETTI turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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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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A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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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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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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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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You must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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So, half a dozen of us tried – not all of us in history – and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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