"Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand."

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Source : Alan Bennett (2008). “The Uncommon Reader”, p.13, Faber & Faber

Alan Bennett

#Book Quotes #Other Worlds Quotes #Wish Quotes

“You have to take Bible prophecy literally, just like everything else in the Bible.”
“I only work out because I have high anxiety, and if I don't I tend to... I say I'm like a border collie. If I don't have something to expend my energy, I chew the furniture. So it just helps me level out so I don't do copious amounts of drugs.”
“I was also just strong and quick - it wasn't hard for me to learn how to dance. I was a natural at it.”
“Our educational system is like an automobile which has strong rear lights, brightly illuminating the past. But looking forward things are barely discernible.”
“Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience.”
“The creative process requires chaos before form emerges.”

Source : Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher
“I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy.”
“The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.”

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