They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury’s, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play.
ALAN BENNETTAn article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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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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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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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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If, for instance, we’d made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it.
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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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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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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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My experience came before most of you were born.
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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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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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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