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.
ALAN BENNETTWhy do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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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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So, half a dozen of us tried – not all of us in history – and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.
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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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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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My films are about embarrassment.
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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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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