Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
ALAN BENNETTLife is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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…she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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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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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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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
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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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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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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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My experience came before most of you were born.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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