Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
ALAN BENNETTf they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
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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.
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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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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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A composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth’s.
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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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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
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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 not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
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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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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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