My experience came before most of you were born.
ALAN BENNETT
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.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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The Waste Land not figuring very largely in Mam’s scheme of things. “The thing is,” I said finally, “he won the Nobel Prize.” “Well,” she said, with that unerring grasp of inessentials which is the prerogative of mothers, “I’m not surprised. It was a beautiful overcoat.”
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Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
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But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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