One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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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[talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.
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But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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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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God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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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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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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I think perhaps that’s why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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I bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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