It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
ALAN BENNETTFar from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
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A composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth’s.
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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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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, ‘I am Mrs de Winter now!
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…she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.
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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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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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