The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
ALAN BENNETTYou have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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…she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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And one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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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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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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