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.
ALAN BENNETTThe Waste Land not figuring very largely in Mam’s scheme of things. “The thing is,” I said finally, “he won the Nobel Prize.” “Well,” she said, with that unerring grasp of inessentials which is the prerogative of mothers, “I’m not surprised. It was a beautiful overcoat.”
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
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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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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it’s in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one’s own.
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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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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 boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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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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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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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.
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A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
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