Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
ALAN BENNETTOnce I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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I bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
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I think perhaps that’s why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.
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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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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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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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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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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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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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