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 BENNETTIf I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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If, for instance, we’d made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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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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And one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.
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The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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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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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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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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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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