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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If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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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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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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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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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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I bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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