Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
ALAN BENNETTAt the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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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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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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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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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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My films are about embarrassment.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
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I dont know whether you’ve ever looked into a miner’s eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you’ve ever seen.
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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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