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 BENNETTNor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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You must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom.
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Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point.
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I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
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f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
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Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
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Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.
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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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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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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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