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 BENNETTSchweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
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The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
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Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?
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Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure.
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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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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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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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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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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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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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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