The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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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.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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If, for instance, we’d made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it.
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I bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
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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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Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
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Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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