f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
ALAN BENNETTThe appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it’s on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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I dont know whether you’ve ever looked into a miner’s eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you’ve ever seen.
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No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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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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