His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
ALAN BENNETTNor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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I think the writer’s quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who, besides being the director, is also director of the National Theatre is, I’d have thought, slightly more risky.
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I bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
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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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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.
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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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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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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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Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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We don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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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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