Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
ALAN BENNETTSo, half a dozen of us tried – not all of us in history – and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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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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Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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