Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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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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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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
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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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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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I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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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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Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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