The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
ALAN BENNETTHowever bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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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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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.
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The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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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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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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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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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
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