Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.
ALAN BENNETTYou 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.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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The 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.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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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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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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If, for instance, we’d made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it.
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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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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