One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
ALAN BENNETTThe liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
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Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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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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All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
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[talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.
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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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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
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…she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.
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I don’t talk very well. With writing, you’ve time to get it right. Also I’ve found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn’t write no one would want me to talk anyway.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it’s in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one’s own.
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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