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.
ALAN BENNETTIt’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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I’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
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A composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth’s.
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Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure.
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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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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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