I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
ALAN BENNETTTo begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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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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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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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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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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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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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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