To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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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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If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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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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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn’t normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge.
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Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
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A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
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It’s like going to a place that you’ve never been to before – you’ve got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the reality.
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