Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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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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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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A 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.
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury’s, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play.
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