But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
ALAN BENNETTAn article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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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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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
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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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To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less…selfish.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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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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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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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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One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
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The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
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