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.
ALAN BENNETTOur perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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It’s like going to a place that you’ve never been to before – you’ve got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the reality.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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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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My experience came before most of you were born.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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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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A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
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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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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.
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The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it’s on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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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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