And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
ALAN BENNETTOne of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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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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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My films are about embarrassment.
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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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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.
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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?
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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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My experience came before most of you were born.
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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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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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