The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
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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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Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, ‘I am Mrs de Winter now!
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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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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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You must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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