Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.
ALAN BENNETTIf you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.
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You must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
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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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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
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My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn’t normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge.
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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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