Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
ALAN BENNETTIf I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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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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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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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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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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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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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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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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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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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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