Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
ALAN BENNETTOf course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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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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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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I think perhaps that’s why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.
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Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.
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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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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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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 sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.
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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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