My experience came before most of you were born.
ALAN BENNETTThe liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
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God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn’t normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge.
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Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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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 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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I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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