The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.
ALAN BENNETTI don’t talk very well. With writing, you’ve time to get it right. Also I’ve found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn’t write no one would want me to talk anyway.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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I’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
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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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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
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And one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.
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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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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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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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The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
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