One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
ALAN BENNETTLife is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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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.
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I think perhaps that’s why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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I suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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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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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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