But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
ALAN BENNETTCloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
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And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
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Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.
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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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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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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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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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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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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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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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