It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
ALAN BENNETTSome local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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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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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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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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And one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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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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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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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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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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