Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
ALAN BENNETTI dont know whether you’ve ever looked into a miner’s eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you’ve ever seen.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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…she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
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Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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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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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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