Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
ALAN BENNETTBooks, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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You must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom.
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date.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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My experience came before most of you were born.
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The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.
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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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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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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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Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there’s no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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We don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
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