I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
ALAN BENNETTTo begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn’t normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge.
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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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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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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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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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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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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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