That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
ALAN BENNETTLife is generally something that happens elsewhere.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
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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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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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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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Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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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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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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