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.
ALAN BENNETTAnd if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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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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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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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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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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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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A composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth’s.
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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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