Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
ALAN BENNETTI 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.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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[talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
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So, half a dozen of us tried – not all of us in history – and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.
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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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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
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I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
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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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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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There’s very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made.
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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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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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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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