Alan Bennett

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You don't put your life into your books, you find it there

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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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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

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[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up

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I'm not "happy" but I'm not unhappy about it