But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
ALAN BENNETTIt [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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Some 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.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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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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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
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And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
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The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
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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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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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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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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
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