At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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So, half a dozen of us tried – not all of us in history – and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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And one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.
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But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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