Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
ALAN BENNETTThere are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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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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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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But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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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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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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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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Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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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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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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