One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
ALAN BENNETTOf course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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It’s subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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It’s like going to a place that you’ve never been to before – you’ve got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the reality.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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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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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
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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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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
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Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
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