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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'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control. — 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

One seldom was able to do her a good turn without some thoughts of strangulation. — Alan Bennett

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

How do I define history? It's just one fucking thing after another — 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

Of course my standards are out of date! That's why they're called standards. — Alan Bennett

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

I know what's required. It's perfectly simple: Justice. — Alan Bennett

All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use. — Alan Bennett

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

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. — Alan Bennett