Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
ALAN BENNETTSoft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
ALAN BENNETTI tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
ALAN BENNETTWere we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
ALAN BENNETTPut him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
ALAN BENNETTIt was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
ALAN BENNETTAll the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
ALAN BENNETTThere’s very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made.
ALAN BENNETTIf you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
ALAN BENNETTOne reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
ALAN BENNETTAnd if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
ALAN BENNETTI 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.
ALAN BENNETTThe 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.
ALAN BENNETTNature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
ALAN BENNETTWhy do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
ALAN BENNETTThe days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
ALAN BENNETTI wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
ALAN BENNETT