To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
ALAN BENNETTYour whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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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 can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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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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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
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We don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
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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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To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less…selfish.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it’s in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one’s own.
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