One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
ALAN BENNETTIf I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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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.
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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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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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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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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A composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth’s.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
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