Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
ALAN BENNETTIn the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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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.
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There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I’m conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
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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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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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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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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
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I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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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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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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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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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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I suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
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