But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
ALAN BENNETTIf, 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.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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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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His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
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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’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
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Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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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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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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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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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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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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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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