Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
ALAN BENNETTThere are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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I think perhaps that’s why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.
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A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
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All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
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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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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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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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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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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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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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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 majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it’s on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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