I dont know whether you’ve ever looked into a miner’s eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you’ve ever seen.
ALAN BENNETTMemories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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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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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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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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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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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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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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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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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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