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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More Alan Bennett Quotes
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And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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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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It’s like going to a place that you’ve never been to before – you’ve got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the reality.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
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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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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, ‘I am Mrs de Winter now!
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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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I don’t talk very well. With writing, you’ve time to get it right. Also I’ve found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn’t write no one would want me to talk anyway.
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