Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
ALAN BENNETTOne of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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It’s subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
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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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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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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 dont know whether you’ve ever looked into a miner’s eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you’ve ever seen.
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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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I think the writer’s quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who, besides being the director, is also director of the National Theatre is, I’d have thought, slightly more risky.
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[talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.
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So, half a dozen of us tried – not all of us in history – and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.
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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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