It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
ALAN BENNETTOne of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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I think perhaps that’s why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
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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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I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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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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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I’m conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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So, half a dozen of us tried – not all of us in history – and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.
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