Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
ALAN BENNETTAuthors, 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.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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If, for instance, we’d made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it.
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Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
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All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
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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 turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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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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The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn’t normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge.
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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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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
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