To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
ALAN BENNETTBooks, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it’s in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one’s own.
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It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
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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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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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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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I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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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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God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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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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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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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.
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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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You 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.
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At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
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The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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