A book, as it were, closes the book.
ALAN BENNETT
I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
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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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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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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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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
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At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
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I don’t talk very well. With writing, you’ve time to get it right. Also I’ve found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn’t write no one would want me to talk anyway.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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