I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
ALAN BENNETTIn the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin
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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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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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Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
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And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
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And one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.
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The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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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.
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