The Waste Land not figuring very largely in Mam’s scheme of things. “The thing is,” I said finally, “he won the Nobel Prize.” “Well,” she said, with that unerring grasp of inessentials which is the prerogative of mothers, “I’m not surprised. It was a beautiful overcoat.”
ALAN BENNETTThe Waste Land not figuring very largely in Mam’s scheme of things. “The thing is,” I said finally, “he won the Nobel Prize.” “Well,” she said, with that unerring grasp of inessentials which is the prerogative of mothers, “I’m not surprised. It was a beautiful overcoat.”
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.
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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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Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
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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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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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Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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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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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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