A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
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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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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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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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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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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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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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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But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
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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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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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We don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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