Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
ALAN BENNETTStandards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, ‘I am Mrs de Winter now!
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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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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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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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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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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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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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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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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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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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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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Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
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