Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
ALAN BENNETT
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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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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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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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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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I bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
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A composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth’s.
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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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God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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