[talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.
ALAN BENNETTI don’t talk very well. With writing, you’ve time to get it right. Also I’ve found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn’t write no one would want me to talk anyway.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
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A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
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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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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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I think perhaps that’s why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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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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The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
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I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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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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Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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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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