And one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.
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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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And one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.
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I don’t talk very well. With writing, you’ve time to get it right. Also I’ve found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn’t write no one would want me to talk anyway.
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The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
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Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life.
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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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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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…she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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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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