And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
ALAN BENNETTThe trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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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’s very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made.
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At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
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Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.
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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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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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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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My films are about embarrassment.
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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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