Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
ALAN BENNETTIf you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
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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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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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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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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I suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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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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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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