But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
ALAN BENNETTHad your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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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 always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
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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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I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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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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There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I’m conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
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A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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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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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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And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
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