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ALAN BENNETTHave you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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…she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.
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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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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date.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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It’s subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
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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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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 school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn’t normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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