An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
ALAN BENNETTWe still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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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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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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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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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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I dont know whether you’ve ever looked into a miner’s eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you’ve ever seen.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point.
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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