Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
ALAN BENNETTThe 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.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.
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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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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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I don’t talk very well. With writing, you’ve time to get it right. Also I’ve found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn’t write no one would want me to talk anyway.
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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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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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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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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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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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My films are about embarrassment.
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There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I’m conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
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