I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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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The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.
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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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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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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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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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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point.
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But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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