The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
ALAN BENNETTI have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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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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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.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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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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What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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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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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
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Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, ‘I am Mrs de Winter now!
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I suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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