Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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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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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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury’s, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play.
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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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To 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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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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