To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
ALAN BENNETTReading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
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Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin
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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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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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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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