Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
ALAN BENNETT
A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
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It’s subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
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I think perhaps that’s why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.
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If, for instance, we’d made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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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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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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