The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
ALAN BENNETTMemories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.
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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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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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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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You always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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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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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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One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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