I dont know whether you’ve ever looked into a miner’s eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you’ve ever seen.
ALAN BENNETTYou don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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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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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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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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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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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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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
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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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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
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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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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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