A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
ALAN BENNETTPolly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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 tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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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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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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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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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I’m conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
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Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, ‘I am Mrs de Winter now!
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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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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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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