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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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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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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I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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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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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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All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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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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Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
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One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
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