If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
ALAN BENNETTWe were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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I think perhaps that’s why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.
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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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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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There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I’m conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
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I’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
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One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
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Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there’s no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.
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Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
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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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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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It’s like going to a place that you’ve never been to before – you’ve got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the reality.
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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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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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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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