The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
ALAN BENNETTI bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
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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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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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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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And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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I dont know whether you’ve ever looked into a miner’s eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you’ve ever seen.
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It’s like going to a place that you’ve never been to before – you’ve got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the reality.
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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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