It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
ALAN BENNETTI’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury’s, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play.
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But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
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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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If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
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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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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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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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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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