But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
ALAN BENNETTI’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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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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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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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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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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My experience came before most of you were born.
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And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.
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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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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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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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