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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
Alan Bennett
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Alan Bennett
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: May 9
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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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One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.
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If, for instance, we'd made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it. We didn't have to do any alterations for Broadway. I was supposed to go a fortnight before it opened to alter anything that was necessary and there was nothing really.
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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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Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key.
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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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It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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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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Above literature?' said the Queen. 'Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.
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I suppose I'm the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it's the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
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I'm not happy but I'm not unhappy about it.
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Books are not about passing the time. They're about other lives. Other worlds.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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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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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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