Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure.
ALAN BENNETTThe thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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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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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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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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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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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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And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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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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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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