Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
ALAN BENNETTLife is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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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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It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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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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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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I bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
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The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
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Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, ‘I am Mrs de Winter now!
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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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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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