God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
ALAN BENNETTIf you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
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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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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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My films are about embarrassment.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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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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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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If, for instance, we’d made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it.
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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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