Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
ALAN BENNETTWe don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury’s, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play.
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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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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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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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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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