Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
ALAN BENNETTOnly when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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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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Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.
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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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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
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I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
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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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