Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
ALAN BENNETTThey may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury’s, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I’m conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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I dont know whether you’ve ever looked into a miner’s eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you’ve ever seen.
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They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury’s, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn’t normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge.
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