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 BENNETTWhy is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
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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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I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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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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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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Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
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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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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
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The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it’s on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.
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Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.
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It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
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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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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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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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I think the writer’s quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who, besides being the director, is also director of the National Theatre is, I’d have thought, slightly more risky.
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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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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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