Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
ALAN BENNETTBut most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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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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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less…selfish.
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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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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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The Waste Land not figuring very largely in Mam’s scheme of things. “The thing is,” I said finally, “he won the Nobel Prize.” “Well,” she said, with that unerring grasp of inessentials which is the prerogative of mothers, “I’m not surprised. It was a beautiful overcoat.”
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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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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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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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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.
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