What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
ALAN BENNETTImagine 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.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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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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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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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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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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You must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom.
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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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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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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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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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[talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.
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The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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