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.
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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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.
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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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The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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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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My experience came before most of you were born.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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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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I don’t talk very well. With writing, you’ve time to get it right. Also I’ve found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn’t write no one would want me to talk anyway.
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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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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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