To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
ALAN BENNETTWhat I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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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 a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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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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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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