If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
ALAN BENNETTI write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
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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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At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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It’s like going to a place that you’ve never been to before – you’ve got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the reality.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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You always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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