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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.

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.

From Alan Bennett

Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development.

From Alan Bennett

I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.

From Alan Bennett

I can't complain that I've had a public all through my writing life, but people don't quite know what I've written. People don't read you too closely. Perhaps, after I've died, they'll look at my stuff, and read it through, and find there's more in it. That may be wrong, but that's what I comfort myself with.

From Alan Bennett

I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had fallen in love with the architecture. It certainly wasn't out of some great sense of academic or intellectual achievement. In many ways, my education only began after I'd left university.

From Alan Bennett

I've been very lucky in everything, really - in my career and in finding someone to share my life with, and in not dying.

From Alan Bennett

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

From Alan Bennett

The bits I most remember about my school days are those that took place outside the classroom, as we were taken on countless theatre visits and trips to places of interest.

From Alan Bennett

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.

From Alan Bennett

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