Only 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.
ALAN BENNETTI’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date.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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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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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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At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
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Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.
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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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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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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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