“To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.”
Alan Bennett (1934) English actor, author
Diary entry for June 7, 1985, p. 143.
Writing Home (1994)
“The ugliness of the ideological lies in its legitimating the pursuit of the trivial.”
Source: Break-Out from the Crystal Palace (1974), p. 92
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