To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
ALAN BENNETT
And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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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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If, for instance, we’d made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it.
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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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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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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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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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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But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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