My experience came before most of you were born.
ALAN BENNETTIt’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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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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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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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it’s in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one’s own.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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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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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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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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God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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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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