Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
ALAN BENNETTI wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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My films are about embarrassment.
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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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A composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth’s.
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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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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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I’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
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