Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
ALAN BENNETTWe were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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The Waste Land not figuring very largely in Mam’s scheme of things. “The thing is,” I said finally, “he won the Nobel Prize.” “Well,” she said, with that unerring grasp of inessentials which is the prerogative of mothers, “I’m not surprised. It was a beautiful overcoat.”
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, ‘I am Mrs de Winter now!
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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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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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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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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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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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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