And one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.
ALAN BENNETTI bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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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.
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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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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
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I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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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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And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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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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