Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
ALAN BENNETTI can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there’s no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.
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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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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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And one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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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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All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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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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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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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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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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