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.
ALAN BENNETTCancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it’s on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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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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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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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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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure.
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I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn’t normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge.
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