Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
ALAN BENNETTAnd if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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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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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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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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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
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It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
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To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less…selfish.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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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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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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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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