Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
ALAN BENNETTSo boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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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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My experience came before most of you were born.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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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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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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The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
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Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
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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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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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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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Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure.
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