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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More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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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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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
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At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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