I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
ALAN BENNETTMark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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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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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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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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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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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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Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure.
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin
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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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