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 BENNETTI lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point.
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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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But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
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Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.
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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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One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
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There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I’m conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
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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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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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