A book, as it were, closes the book.
ALAN BENNETTSchweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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I suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
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A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
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I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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We don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
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What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life.
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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