Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure.
ALAN BENNETTNo mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, ‘I am Mrs de Winter now!
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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I bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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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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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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