The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
ALAN BENNETTPolly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
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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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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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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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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.
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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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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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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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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 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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