To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
ALAN BENNETTGod doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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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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The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
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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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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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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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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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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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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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