[talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.
ALAN BENNETTAnd if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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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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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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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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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin
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At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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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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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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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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