I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less…selfish.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.
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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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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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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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I think the writer’s quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who, besides being the director, is also director of the National Theatre is, I’d have thought, slightly more risky.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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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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[talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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