“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.” IfsWayBornSightRoseFinding YourselfVirginiaWoolf Author:Alan Bennett
“The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours” IfsWayInspirationalPersonsLongBookMomentsFeelingsHandsMotivationalReadingLiteratureTakenSpecialParticularMetsMetaphorReading BooksPlaywrightScreenwritersHolding HandsHandshakeBest MomentsBeautiful Moments Author:Alan Bennett
“Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count. We still don't like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died. A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It's not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember. 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.” PeopleWayShouldStillsWarBodyCareLastsRememberStuffForgetConcernedDiedFaultsPhotographPostsAcknowledgeMourningRealisingBetter WaysCattleLest We Forget Author:Alan Bennett
“... Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up. Books, bread and butter, mashed potato - one finishes what's on one's plate. That's always been my philosophy.” WayBookPhilosophyBreadPlatesPotatoesBread And ButterMashed Potatoes Book:The Uncommon Reader Source: The Uncommon Reader
“I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I'm homosexual. In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.” WayWantChildrenArtistLostParentCircumstancesLosingTwentiesBackgroundsHomosexualBlueprintsOnly Child Book:A Private Function Source: A Private Function
