My experience came before most of you were born.
ALAN BENNETTMy 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.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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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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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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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 had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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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’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin
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