I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
ALAN BENNETTI suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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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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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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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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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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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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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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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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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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[talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.
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