You always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
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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I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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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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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
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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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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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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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Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.
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