Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure.
ALAN BENNETTSome local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.
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Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.
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I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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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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I think perhaps that’s why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.
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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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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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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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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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Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
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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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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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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.
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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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