The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
ALAN BENNETTThe liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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So, half a dozen of us tried – not all of us in history – and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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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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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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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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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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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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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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…she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.
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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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A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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I suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
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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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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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