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.
ALAN BENNETTThe best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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 tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date.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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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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[talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.
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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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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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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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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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Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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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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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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