And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
ALAN BENNETTI 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.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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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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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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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.
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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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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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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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