My experience came before most of you were born.
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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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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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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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
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The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it’s on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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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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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
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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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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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It’s subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
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