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.
ALAN BENNETTBooks generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin
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Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.
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