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One Quotes by Alan Bennett
- I suppose I'm the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it's the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on…
- 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…
- 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…
- Above literature?' said the Queen. 'Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
- One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn…
- The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was reading them or…
- ... Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up. Books, bread and butter, mashed potato - one…
- Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader's imagination as the…
- To begin with, it's true, she read with trepidation and some unease. The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how…
- One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.' To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page:…
- To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less...selfish.
- One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.
- [talking about the Holocaust] 'But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.…
- I have no nickname, as there has never been any need for one.
More One Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle