The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
ALAN BENNETTHistory is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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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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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less…selfish.
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Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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[talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.
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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.
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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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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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We don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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