The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
ALAN BENNETTI’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury’s, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play.
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You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
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The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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We don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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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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And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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I suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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