At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
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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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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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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Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point.
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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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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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A composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth’s.
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The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
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Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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