The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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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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You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure.
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If, for instance, we’d made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it.
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