I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
ALAN BENNETTNever read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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And one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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It’s like going to a place that you’ve never been to before – you’ve got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the reality.
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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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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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