I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
ALAN BENNETTWe still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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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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I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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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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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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It’s subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
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I suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
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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.
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What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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