It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
ALAN BENNETTThose who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date.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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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury’s, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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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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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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