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 BENNETTHowever bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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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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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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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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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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I think the writer’s quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who, besides being the director, is also director of the National Theatre is, I’d have thought, slightly more risky.
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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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 was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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