The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
ALAN BENNETTYou don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.
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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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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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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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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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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.
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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 generally something that happens elsewhere.
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