The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
ALAN BENNETTLife is generally something that happens elsewhere.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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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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I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?
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I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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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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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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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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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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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
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