I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
ALAN BENNETTIt seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
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My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn’t normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge.
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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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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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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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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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