But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
ALAN BENNETTI think the writer’s quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who, besides being the director, is also director of the National Theatre is, I’d have thought, slightly more risky.
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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Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, ‘I am Mrs de Winter now!
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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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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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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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The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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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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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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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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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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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.
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