Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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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The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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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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Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
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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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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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I think perhaps that’s why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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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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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life.
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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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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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