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 BENNETTMemories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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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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Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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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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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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