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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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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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Books are not about passing the time. They're about other lives. Other worlds.
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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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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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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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I can walk. It's just that I'm so rich I don't need to.
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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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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth letters a republic.
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