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 BENNETTI’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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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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And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
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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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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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I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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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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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.
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