I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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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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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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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
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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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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
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Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury’s, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play.
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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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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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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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