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.
ALAN BENNETTWe started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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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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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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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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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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God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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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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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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