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ALAN BENNETTStandards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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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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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
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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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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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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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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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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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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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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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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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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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