The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
ALAN BENNETTBecause you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there’s no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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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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[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point.
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The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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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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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
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To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less…selfish.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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It’s like going to a place that you’ve never been to before – you’ve got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the reality.
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