Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
ALAN BENNETTAnd one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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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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And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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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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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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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.
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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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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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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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