But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
ALAN BENNETTYou go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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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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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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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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We don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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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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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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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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Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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