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Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
— Alan Bennett
Never at my best when at my best behaviour.
— Alan Bennett
To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less ... selfish.
— Alan Bennett
I always feel over-appreciated but underestimated.
— Alan Bennett
I've been very lucky in everything, really - in my career and in finding someone to share my life with, and in not dying.
— Alan Bennett
History nowadays is not a matter of conviction.It's a performance. It's entertainment. And if it isn't, make it so. — Alan Bennett
Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
— Alan Bennett
Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
— Alan Bennett
Proust's is a long book, though, water- skiing permitting, you could get through it in the summer recess
— Alan Bennett
Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, 'I am Mrs de Winter now!
— Alan Bennett
I note at the age of ten a fully developed ability not quite to enjoy myself, a capacity I have retained intact ever since.
— Alan Bennett
To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
— Alan Bennett
Still as I've said all along, you can't polish a turd.
— Alan Bennett
So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
— Alan Bennett
as I think Hebbel says, in a good play everyone is right.
— Alan Bennett
Here I sit, alone at 60,Bald and fat and full of sin
Cold the seat, and loud the cistern
As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin — Alan Bennett
Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
— Alan Bennett
Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
— Alan Bennett
One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.
— Alan Bennett
It is seldom at the frontier that discoveries are made but more often in the dustbin.
— Alan Bennett
Alan Bennett and Judi Dench are amazingly talented people who don't let you down when you meet them.
— Alan Titchmarsh
I don't want to see libraries close; I want to find local solutions that will make them sustainable.
— Alan Bennett
I know what's required. It's perfectly simple: Justice.
— Alan Bennett
