Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
ALAN BENNETTThose who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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There’s very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made.
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I dont know whether you’ve ever looked into a miner’s eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you’ve ever seen.
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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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God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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A composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth’s.
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date.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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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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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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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it’s in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one’s own.
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It’s subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
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