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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[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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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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Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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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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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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I bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
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