I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
ALAN BENNETTTo begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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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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What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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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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There’s very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made.
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I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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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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But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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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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I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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