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.
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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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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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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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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And one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.
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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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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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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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