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.
ALAN BENNETTIf I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date.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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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin
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And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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I’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
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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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