Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
ALAN BENNETTWhy do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date.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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I suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
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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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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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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
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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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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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