Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
ALAN BENNETTPolly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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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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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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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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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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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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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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