Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
ALAN BENNETTKafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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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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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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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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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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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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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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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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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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Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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