Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
ALAN BENNETTCloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
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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’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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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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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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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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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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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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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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