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Your whole life is on the othe...

Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.

Alan Bennett 124 quotes

I don't talk very well. With w...

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.

Alan Bennett 124 quotes

But then books, as I'm sure yo...

But then books, as I'm sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action. Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already. You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated. A book, as it were, closes the book.

Alan Bennett 124 quotes

Had your forefathers, Wigglesw...

Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.

Alan Bennett 124 quotes

What she was finding also was ...

What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.

Alan Bennett 124 quotes

Books are not about passing ti...

Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.

Alan Bennett 124 quotes

A book is a device to ignite t...

A book is a device to ignite the imagination.

Alan Bennett 124 quotes

I write plays about things tha...

I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.

Alan Bennett 124 quotes

I've never seen the point of t...

I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.

Alan Bennett 124 quotes

My films are about embarrassme...

My films are about embarrassment.

Alan Bennett 124 quotes

Life is rather like a tin of s...

Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key.

Alan Bennett 124 quotes

Were we closer to the ground a...

Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?

Alan Bennett 124 quotes

I was an only child. I lost bo...

I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I'm homosexual. In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.

Alan Bennett 124 quotes

Remember. You are a physician....

Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion. You must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom. You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.

Alan Bennett 124 quotes

You don't put your life into y...

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

Alan Bennett 124 quotes

...she felt about reading what...

...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.

Alan Bennett 124 quotes

Above literature?' said the Qu...

Above literature?' said the Queen. 'Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.

Alan Bennett 124 quotes

[B]riefing is not reading. In ...

[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.

Alan Bennett 124 quotes

I have never understood dislik...

I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.

Alan Bennett 124 quotes

I'm for the freedom of express...

I'm for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.

Alan Bennett 124 quotes

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....