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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I suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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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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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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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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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there’s no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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