To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
ALAN BENNETT…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.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.
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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
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But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
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Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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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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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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