It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
ALAN BENNETTI’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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It’s like going to a place that you’ve never been to before – you’ve got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the reality.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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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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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’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.
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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life.
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If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
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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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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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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.
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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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