They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury’s, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play.
ALAN BENNETTHave you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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I dont know whether you’ve ever looked into a miner’s eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you’ve ever seen.
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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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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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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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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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And one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.
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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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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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