But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
ALAN BENNETTIf I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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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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If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
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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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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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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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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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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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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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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I’m conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
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And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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