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 BENNETTIt [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.
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His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
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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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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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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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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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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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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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There’s very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made.
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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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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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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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