There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I’m conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
ALAN BENNETTBut then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.
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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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The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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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
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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