[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.
ALAN BENNETTGod doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
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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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My films are about embarrassment.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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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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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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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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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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They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury’s, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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