Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
ALAN BENNETTTo read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less…selfish.
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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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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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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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And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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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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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
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We don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
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If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
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