One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
ALAN BENNETTWere we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
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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.
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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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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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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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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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[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.
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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You 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.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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