Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Auteur: Alan Bennett Copy Quote More from Alan Bennett “Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of se…” “One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.” “She said, 'He knows what I mean. Where did you get those shoes?' He said, 'They…” “HEADMASTER: I was a geographer. I went to Hull.IRWIN: Oh. Larkin.HEADMASTER: Ev…”