Proust's is a long book, though, water- skiing permitting, you could get through it in the summer recess
Alan BennettClichés can be quite fun. That's how they got to be clichés.
Alan BennettTags: humor wisdom writing cliches
She‘d never taken much interest in reading. She read, of course, as one did, but liking books was something she left to other people.
Alan BennettDeluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life. Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.
Alan BennettThe appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic. Actually she had heard this phrase, the republic of letters, used before, at graduation ceremonies, honorary degrees and the like, though without knowing quite what it meant. At that time talk of a republic of any sort she had thought mildly insulting and in her actual presence tactless to say the least. It was only now she understood what it meant. Books did not defer. All readers were equal and this took her back to the beginning of her life. As a girl, one of her greatest thrills had been on VE night when she and her sister had slipped out of the gates and mingled unrecognised with the crowds. There was something of that, she felt, to reading. It was anonymous; it was shared; it was common. And she who had led a life apart now found that she craved it. Here in these pages and between these covers she could go unrecognised.
Alan BennettTags: reading
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 on.
Alan BennettHistory is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
Alan BennettThe transmission of knowledge is in itself an erotic act.
Alan Bennett... да те информират, не значи да си чел. Всъщност информирането е антитезата на четенето. То е сбито, фактологично и точно. Четенето е хаотично, подробно и неизменно привлекателно. Информирането стеснява една тема, четенето я разширява.
Alan BennettКралицата започна да проумява и друго - че прочитът на една книга води до четене на друга, че това са врати, които непрекъснато се отварят, и че времето никога нямаше да ѝ стигне, за да изчете всичко, което иска.
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