Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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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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God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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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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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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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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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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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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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
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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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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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