#incident

Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally. ↗

— Patrick Macnee

#came #caught #changed #could #crime

I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a wider pattern of poetry about national incidents, events, preoccupations; and to spend a great deal of time going to schools trying to demystify poetry. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#deal #events #going #great #great deal

The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters. ↗

— Harold Nicolson

#great #great secret #incidents #marriage #none

People are still crazy about Python after twenty-five years, which I find hard to believe. ↗

— Michael Palin

#art #country #cultures #drama #genuinely