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.
ALAN BENNETTYou must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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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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The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.
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I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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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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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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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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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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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.
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f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
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