Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
ALAN BENNETTOne of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
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You must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom.
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You always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
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Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure.
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Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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