The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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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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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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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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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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And one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.
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[talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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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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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.
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