Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
ALAN BENNETTReading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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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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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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You must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom.
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Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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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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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 is a device to ignite the imagination.
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Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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