But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
ALAN BENNETTTo play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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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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One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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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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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
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I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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