Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
ALAN BENNETTI tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
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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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Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it’s in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one’s own.
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The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
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There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I’m conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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So, half a dozen of us tried – not all of us in history – and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.
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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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