Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
ALAN BENNETTA composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth’s.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life.
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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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I think perhaps that’s why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.
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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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Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it’s in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one’s own.
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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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There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I’m conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
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Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
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