Alan Bennett цитаты
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“A book is a device to ignite the imagination.”
Источник: The Uncommon Reader
“You don't put your life into your books, you find it there.”
Источник: The Uncommon Reader
Источник: Getting On, Act 1 (1972).
“The days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.”
Источник: The Uncommon Reader
“I'm not "happy" but I'm not unhappy about it.”
Источник: The History Boys
“Cloisters, ancient libraries… I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.”
Источник: The History Boys
“Clichés can be quite fun. That's how they got to be clichés.”
Источник: The History Boys
“Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.”
Источник: The Uncommon Reader
“One reads for pleasure… it is not a public duty.”
Источник: The Uncommon Reader
“It was the kind of library
he had only read about in books.”
Источник: The Uncommon Reader
“Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.”
"Alas! Deceived", p. 367 (1993).
Writing Home (1994)
Diary entry for June 27, 1988, p. 177.
Writing Home (1994)
Introduction, p. x (1994).
Writing Home (1994)
“Schoolmaster: But God, whatever else He is, and of course He is everything else, is not a fool.”
Act 2, p. 78.
Forty Years On (1972)
"Instead of a Present", p. 323 (1982).
Writing Home (1994)