Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
ALAN BENNETTThat’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
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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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Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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