Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
ALAN BENNETTWe don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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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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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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I suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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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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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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A composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth’s.
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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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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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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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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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