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.
ALAN BENNETTIt 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.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
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Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it’s in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one’s own.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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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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All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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It’s like going to a place that you’ve never been to before – you’ve got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the reality.
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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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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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