And one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.
ALAN BENNETTYou always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less…selfish.
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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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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I’m conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
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The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
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So, half a dozen of us tried – not all of us in history – and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.
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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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