I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
ALAN BENNETT[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.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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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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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
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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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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
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It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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