God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
ALAN BENNETTThe masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
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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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Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there’s no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.
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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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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
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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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Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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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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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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