To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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You always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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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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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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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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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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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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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
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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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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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