I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
ALAN BENNETTMy films are about embarrassment.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
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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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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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And one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.
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Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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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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Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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