Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
ALAN BENNETTStandards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
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Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, ‘I am Mrs de Winter now!
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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I’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
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