Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
ALAN BENNETTOne of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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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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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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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.
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What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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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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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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I bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
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I don’t talk very well. With writing, you’ve time to get it right. Also I’ve found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn’t write no one would want me to talk anyway.
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