Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
ALAN BENNETTBooks are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
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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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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
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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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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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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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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it’s in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one’s own.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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