It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
ALAN BENNETTIf you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less…selfish.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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If, for instance, we’d made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it.
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The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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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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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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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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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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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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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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