It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
ALAN BENNETTRemember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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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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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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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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The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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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.
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f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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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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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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