One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
ALAN BENNETTNature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
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I bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
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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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To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less…selfish.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it’s on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.
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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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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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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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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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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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