It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
ALAN BENNETTYou don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it’s in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one’s own.
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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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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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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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Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
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Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
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The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
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To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less…selfish.
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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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My films are about embarrassment.
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