And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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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.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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I don’t talk very well. With writing, you’ve time to get it right. Also I’ve found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn’t write no one would want me to talk anyway.
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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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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.
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The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
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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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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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