One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
ALAN BENNETT
Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
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The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it’s on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.
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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less…selfish.
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The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
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[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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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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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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