If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
ALAN BENNETTI wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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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 have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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I think the writer’s quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who, besides being the director, is also director of the National Theatre is, I’d have thought, slightly more risky.
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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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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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I dont know whether you’ve ever looked into a miner’s eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you’ve ever seen.
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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.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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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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