Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
ALAN BENNETTI wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point.
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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.
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And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it’s in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one’s own.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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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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Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
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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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