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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.

Alan Bennett

Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
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Key Life Look Rather Sardine Tin
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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Better Play Conscious Film Good No Often Raed Script Such Thing
The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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Announce Best Departure Liturgy Rad Someone Train Treat
Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Book Live Other Pass Time World
f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
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Alec Been Born Business Instance Work
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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Apartment Door Someone Sound Spent Wall Write
It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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Earth Face Mind One See Species
I suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
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Nijinsky Ballet Collaboration Excite Fruit More Only Person Remember Suppose Unlikely
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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Except Land Meet never Point Sea Seen Shore
A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
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Bookshelf Library Particular People Perform Stamp
I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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Left Male National Park Serengeti White Wish
…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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Chosen Felt Impossible Late Read She Stage Writer
Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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Always Date Makem Standard Standard
Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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Glass Life Nobody Other Side Watch Whole
I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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Either Experience Forgotten Like Nobody People School
I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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Mind Out Play Resolve Root Thing Write

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