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.
ALAN BENNETTI’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life.
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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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At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
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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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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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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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