To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less…selfish.
ALAN BENNETTThere are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it’s on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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I think perhaps that’s why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.
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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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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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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 of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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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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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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