Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
ALAN BENNETTI’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
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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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You always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
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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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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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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
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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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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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