Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
ALAN BENNETTOf course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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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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To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less…selfish.
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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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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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I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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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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