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 BENNETTArt 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.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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I bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
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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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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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So, half a dozen of us tried – not all of us in history – and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.
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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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Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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