I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it’s in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one’s own.
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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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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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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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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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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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.
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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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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