The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
ALAN BENNETTA photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury’s, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play.
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A composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth’s.
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The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
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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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Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure.
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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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If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
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