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Alan Bennett Quotes

English - Dramatist | May 9, 1934 -

I don't believe in private education.

Education Believe Private

I always feel over-appreciated but underestimated.

Feel Always Underestimated

Full-blooded romantic love I wouldn't be able to write about.

Love Romantic Write Able About

I'd somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not something you enjoyed.

Life Me Thought Literature You

We were all miners in our family. My father was a miner. My mother is a miner. These are miner's hands, but we were all artists, I suppose, really. But I was the first one who had the urge to express myself on paper rather than at the coalface.

Family Father Mother Myself Hands

I have no nickname, as there has never been any need for one.

Never Need Been Nickname Any

All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.

Knowledge Human Precious Use Whether

I don't want to see libraries close; I want to find local solutions that will make them sustainable.

Find Want Will See Solutions Close

I'm less genial than people think, but I'm too timid to seem nasty.

People Think Seem Nasty Than Timid

Sometimes, particularly in summers in New York, I have tried to write in shorts or with no shirt on and found myself unable to do so, the reason being, I take it, that writing, even of the most impersonal sort, is for me a divestment, a striptease, even, so that if I start off undressed, I have nowhere to go.

Myself New York Me Writing Start Go

I do not long for the world as it was when I was a child. I do not long for the person I was in that world. I do not want to be the person I am now in that world then. None of the forms nostalgia can take fits. I found childhood boring. I was glad it was over.

Childhood I Am Child World Long Now

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