But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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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.
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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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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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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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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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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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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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A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
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The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
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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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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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