If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
ALAN BENNETTIf you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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I suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
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But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
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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.
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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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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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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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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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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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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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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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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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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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