I’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
ALAN BENNETT
But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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I’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
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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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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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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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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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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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And one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.
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f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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