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 BENNETTMy films are about embarrassment.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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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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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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…she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.
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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure.
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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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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.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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It’s subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
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The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
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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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