The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
ALAN BENNETT
And 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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The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
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I don’t talk very well. With writing, you’ve time to get it right. Also I’ve found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn’t write no one would want me to talk anyway.
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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’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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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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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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If, for instance, we’d made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it.
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