The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
ALAN BENNETTYou don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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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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A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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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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I think perhaps that’s why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.
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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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But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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You must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom.
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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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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
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