However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
ALAN BENNETTAnd now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
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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.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
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Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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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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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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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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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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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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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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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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