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.
ALAN BENNETTBut the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.
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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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Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life.
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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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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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You always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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We don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
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I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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