Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
ALAN BENNETTOne of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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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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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We don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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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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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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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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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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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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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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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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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 appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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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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