There’s very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made.
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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You must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom.
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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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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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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date.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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My experience came before most of you were born.
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Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life.
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it’s in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one’s own.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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