But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
ALAN BENNETTThe days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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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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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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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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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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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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