The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.
ALAN BENNETTNature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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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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…she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.
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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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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
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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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My experience came before most of you were born.
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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