There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
ALAN BENNETTI wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
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And one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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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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Art 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.
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His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
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I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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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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The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
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