You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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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Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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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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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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There’s very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made.
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
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The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin
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Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there’s no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.
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I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
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