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You don't put your life into your books, you find it there.

Alan Bennett

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Alan Bennett
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: May 9
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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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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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I've never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin. 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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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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Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less...selfish.
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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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The days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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Our father the novelist my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages - just don't catch him at breakfast. Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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I don't talk very well. With writing, you've time to get it right. Also I've found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn't write no one would want me to talk anyway.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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To begin with, it's true, she read with trepidation and some unease. The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.
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It's the one species I wouldn't mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth. I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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God doesn't do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, Can I be excused the Crucifixion? No!
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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
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