One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
ALAN BENNETTOver the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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My films are about embarrassment.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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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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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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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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But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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I’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
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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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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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