Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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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I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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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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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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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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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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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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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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I don’t talk very well. With writing, you’ve time to get it right. Also I’ve found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn’t write no one would want me to talk anyway.
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Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.
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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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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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