And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
ALAN BENNETTThose who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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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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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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Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
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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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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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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 don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
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Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
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