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Alan Bennett Quotes

Alan Bennett quotes

English Playwright May 9, 1934

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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them. Alan Bennett
Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand. Alan Bennett
IRWIN: At the time of the Reformation there were fourteen foreskins of Christ preserved, but it was thought that the church of St John Lateran in Rome had the authentic prepuce. DAKIN: Don't think we're shocked by your mention of the word 'foreskin', sir. CROWTHER: No, sir. Some of us even have them. LOCKWOOD: Not Posner, though, sir. Posner's like, you know, Jewish. It's one of several things Posner doesn't have. (Posner mouths 'fuck off.') Alan Bennett
HEADMASTER: I was a geographer. I went to Hull. IRWIN: Oh. Larkin. HEADMASTER: Everybody says that. 'Hull? Oh, Larkin.' I don't know about the poetry... as I say, I was a geographer... but as a librarian he was pitiless. The Himmler of the Accessions Desk. And now, we're told, women in droves. Art. They get away with murder. Alan Bennett
Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion. You must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom. You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master. Alan Bennett
Alan Bennett quote: "It was the kind of libraryhe had only read about in books."
It was the kind of libraryhe had only read about in books. Alan Bennett
The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic. Alan Bennett
Alan Bennett quote: "I have to seem like a human being all the time, but I seldom..."
I have to seem like a human being all the time, but I seldom have to be one. I have people to do that for me. Alan Bennett
Alan Bennett quote: "If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower..."
If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging. Alan Bennett
Alan Bennett quote: "Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have..."
Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have. Alan Bennett
History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket. Alan Bennett
Alan Bennett quote: "Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second..."
Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never. Alan Bennett
What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do. Alan Bennett
To read is to withdraw. To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less... selfish. Alan Bennett
...to her all books were the same and, as with her subjects, she felt a duty to approach them without prejudice...Lauren Bacall, Winifred Holtby, Sylvia Plath - who were they? Only be reading could she find out. Alan Bennett

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