If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
ALAN BENNETTIt’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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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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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date.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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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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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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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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