In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
ALAN BENNETTSo boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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It’s subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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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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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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There’s very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made.
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But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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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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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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