Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
ALAN BENNETTYou don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it’s on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.
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If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
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All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
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There’s very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made.
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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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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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