One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
ALAN BENNETTChildren always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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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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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.
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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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The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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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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If, for instance, we’d made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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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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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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