Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
ALAN BENNETTThe 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.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
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I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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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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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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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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I’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
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