Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there’s no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.
ALAN BENNETTLife is generally something that happens elsewhere.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
-
-
Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
ALAN BENNETT -
At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
ALAN BENNETT -
I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
ALAN BENNETT -
And one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.
ALAN BENNETT -
All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
ALAN BENNETT -
I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
ALAN BENNETT -
One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
ALAN BENNETT -
It’s subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
ALAN BENNETT -
Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
ALAN BENNETT -
Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
ALAN BENNETT -
We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
ALAN BENNETT -
You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
ALAN BENNETT -
If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
ALAN BENNETT -
Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
ALAN BENNETT -
You always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
ALAN BENNETT