History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
ALAN BENNETTI’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.
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At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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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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My films are about embarrassment.
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Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there’s no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.
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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.
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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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