Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
ALAN BENNETTMy experience came before most of you were born.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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There’s very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made.
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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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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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I’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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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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My films are about embarrassment.
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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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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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