Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.
ALAN BENNETTIt’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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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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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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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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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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