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 BENNETTWere we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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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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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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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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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn’t normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge.
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I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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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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If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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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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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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