And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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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So, half a dozen of us tried – not all of us in history – and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.
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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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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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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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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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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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There’s very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made.
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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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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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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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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
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