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.
ALAN BENNETTThe thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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There’s very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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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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One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
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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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Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there’s no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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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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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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The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it’s on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.
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