I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
ALAN BENNETTBut 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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A composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth’s.
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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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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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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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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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