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

~Alan Bennett

Topics: Human Knowledge Precious Serve Slightest Use Whether

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

~Alan Bennett

Topics: Close Find Libraries Local Make See Solutions Sustainable Them Want Will

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

~Alan Bennett

Topics: Less Nasty People Seem Than Think Timid Too

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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.

~Alan Bennett

Topics: Being Even Found Go Impersonal Me Most Myself New New York Nowhere Off Particularly Reason Shirt Shorts Sometimes Sort Start Summers Take Tried Unable Write Writing York

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Feeling I'd scarcely arrived at a style, I now find I'm near the end of it. I'm not quite sure what Late Style means except that it's some sort of licence, a permit for ageing practitioners to kick their heels up.

~Alan Bennett

Topics: Ageing Arrived End Except Feeling Find Heels Kick Late Licence Means Near Now Permit Quite Scarcely Some Sort Style Sure Up

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Dramatist

Born: May 9th, 1934

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