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 BENNETTI’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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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 lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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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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The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it’s on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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We don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
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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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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
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