Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
ALAN BENNETTOne of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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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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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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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
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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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[talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.
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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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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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At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life.
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