Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
ALAN BENNETTIt’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there’s no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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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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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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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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And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
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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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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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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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