You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
ALAN BENNETTWe don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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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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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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I’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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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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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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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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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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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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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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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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