But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
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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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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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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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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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 reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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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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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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