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Inspirational Quotes by Alan Bennett
- I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.
- Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
- Why is it always the "intelligent" people who are socialists?
- Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
- I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
- My films are about embarrassment.
- Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
- Standards are always out of date. That's what makes them standards.
- Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
- I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
- At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
- What I'm above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality. If I had to sum up my work, I…
- The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you…
- 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,…
- You don't put your life into your books, you find it there.
- It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
- I'm not "happy" but I'm not unhappy about it.
- All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I'd got somewhere, then I found I had to go…
- Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
- It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
- One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.
- Clichés can be quite fun. That's how they got to be clichés.
More Inspirational Quotes
- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento