But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
ALAN BENNETTReading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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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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My films are about embarrassment.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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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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The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
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They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury’s, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play.
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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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[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point.
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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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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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