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.
ALAN BENNETTTo begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
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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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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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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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…she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.
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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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