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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'm not happy but I'm not unhappy about it.
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The days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten. They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury's, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play.
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I think the writer's quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who, besides being the director, is also director of the National Theatre is, I'd have thought, slightly more risky.
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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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A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date? Of course they're out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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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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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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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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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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You always know when you're going to arrive. If you go by car, you don't. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
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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. I think perhaps that's why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.
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One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.
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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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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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