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 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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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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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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Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
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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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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?
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[talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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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.
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You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
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A composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth’s.
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